self-assured
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- self-assuredly adverb
- self-assuredness noun
Etymology
Origin of self-assured
First recorded in 1705–15
Example Sentences
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Kiley is normally a bubbly girl with long brown hair and a self-assured smile, but as she kept raising her phone to take a photo, then stopping, her eyes saddened.
From Los Angeles Times
Egypt is self-assured and funny, cocky in a clear-eyed way.
From Los Angeles Times
Platt has a boyish face and a soft, self-assured speaking voice.
From Los Angeles Times
Grimes’ vocals still dart and jab around most tracks, but tracks like “California” carry the unmistakable, self-assured delivery of a person who just started making their own granola.
From Salon
The resulting sequence brims with delightful wonder and manifests her spunky, self-assured personality.
From Los Angeles Times
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